﻿<html xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:mshelp="http://msdn.microsoft.com/mshelp" xmlns:mshelp="http://msdn.microsoft.com/mshelp" xmlns:ddue="http://ddue.schemas.microsoft.com/authoring/2003/5" xmlns:msxsl="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xslt">
<head>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
    
    <meta name="save" content="history" />
    <meta name="Language" content="en-us" />
    <meta name="System.Keywords" content="dashboards, Progress (GovDev)" />
    <meta name="System.Keywords" content="progress, agile dashboard" />
    <meta name="Microsoft.Help.Id" content="abd1932d-47d3-4e5c-82a8-1b2d6fc4af89" />
    <meta name="Description" content="You can use the Progress dashboard to track team progress toward completing an iteration. This dashboard displays four reports that help you monitor progress, burndown, and issues." />
    <meta name="Microsoft.Help.ContentType" content="Concepts" />
    <meta name="DCSext.ProductFamily" content="LIB_DG" />
    <meta name="DCSext.Product" content="ALM_TeamFoundation" />
    <meta name="DCSext.Title" value="Progress Dashboard (GovDev)" />
    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../styles/presentation.css" />
    
    <script type="text/javascript" src="../scripts/EventUtilities.js"> </script>
    <script type="text/javascript" src="../scripts/SplitScreen.js"> </script>
    <script type="text/javascript" src="../scripts/Dropdown.js"> </script>
    <script type="text/javascript" src="../scripts/script_manifold.js"> </script>
    <script type="text/javascript" src="../scripts/script_feedBack.js"> </script>
    <script type="text/javascript" src="../scripts/CheckboxMenu.js"> </script>
    <script type="text/javascript" src="../scripts/CommonUtilities.js"> </script>
    <xml><MSHelp:TOCTitle Title="Progress" /><MSHelp:Keyword Index="A" Term="abd1932d-47d3-4e5c-82a8-1b2d6fc4af89" /><MSHelp:Keyword Index="K" Term="dashboards, Progress (GovDev)" /><MSHelp:Keyword Index="K" Term="progress, agile dashboard" /><MSHelp:Attr Name="RevisionNumber" Value="22" /><MSHelp:Attr Name="AssetID" Value="abd1932d-47d3-4e5c-82a8-1b2d6fc4af89" /><MSHelp:Attr Name="Abstract" Value="You can use the Progress dashboard to track team progress toward completing an iteration. This dashboard displays four reports that help you monitor progress, burndown, and issues." /><MSHelp:Attr Name="CommunityContent" Value="1" /><MSHelp:Attr Name="ShippedIn" Value="vs.90" /><MSHelp:Attr Name="TopicVersion" Value="10.0.10236.10000" /><MSHelp:Attr Name="Catalog Container" Value="System_Default_Catalog" /><MSHelp:Attr Name="Content Set Container" Value="System_Default_Content_Set" /><MSHelp:Attr Name="TopicType" Value="kbArticle" /><MSHelp:Attr Name="Locale" Value="en-us" /></xml>
    <title>Progress Dashboard (GovDev)</title>
</head>
<body>
	<input type="hidden" id="userDataCache" class="userDataStyle" />
	<input type="hidden" id="hiddenScrollOffset" />
	<img id="collapseImage" style="display:none; height:0; width:0;" src="../icons/collapse_all.gif" alt="Collapse image" title="Collapse image" />
	<img id="expandImage" style="display:none; height:0; width:0;" src="../icons/expand_all.gif" alt="Expand Image" title="Expand Image" />
	<img id="collapseAllImage" style="display:none; height:0; width:0;" src="../icons/collapse_all.gif" />
	<img id="expandAllImage" style="display:none; height:0; width:0;" src="../icons/expand_all.gif" />
	<img id="dropDownImage" style="display:none; height:0; width:0;" src="../icons/dropdown.gif" />
	<img id="dropDownHoverImage" style="display:none; height:0; width:0;" src="../icons/dropdownHover.gif" />
	<img id="copyImage" style="display:none; height:0; width:0;" src="../icons/copycode.gif" alt="Copy image" title="Copy image" />
	<img id="copyHoverImage" style="display:none; height:0; width:0;" src="../icons/copycodeHighlight.gif" alt="CopyHover image" title="CopyHover image" />
	<div id="header">
		<table id="topTable" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
			<tr>
				<td>
					<span onclick="ExpandCollapseAll(toggleAllImage)" style="cursor:default;" onkeypress="ExpandCollapseAll_CheckKey(toggleAllImage, event)" tabindex="0">
						<img ID="toggleAllImage" class="toggleAll" src="../icons/collapse_all.gif" /> 
						<label id="collapseAllLabel" for="toggleAllImage" style="display: none;">Collapse All</label>
						<label id="expandAllLabel" for="toggleAllImage" style="display: none;">Expand All</label> 
					</span> 
					<span>    </span> 
					<span id="devlangsDropdown" class="filter" tabindex="0">
						<img id="devlangsDropdownImage" src="../icons/dropdown.gif" /> 
						<label id="devlangsMenuAllLabel" for="devlangsDropdownImage" style="display: none;"><nobr>Code: All </nobr></label>
						<label id="devlangsMenuMultipleLabel" for="devlangsDropdownImage" style="display: none;"><nobr>Code: Multiple </nobr></label>
						<label id="devlangsMenuVisualBasicLabel" for="devlangsDropdownImage" style="display: none;"><nobr>Code: Visual Basic </nobr></label>
						<label id="devlangsMenuCSharpLabel" for="devlangsDropdownImage" style="display: none;"><nobr>Code: C# </nobr></label>
						<label id="devlangsMenuManagedCPlusPlusLabel" for="devlangsDropdownImage" style="display: none;"><nobr>Code: Visual C++ </nobr></label>
						<label id="devlangsMenuFSharpLabel" for="devlangsDropdownImage" style="display: none;"><nobr>Code: F# </nobr></label>
						<label id="devlangsMenuJScriptLabel" for="devlangsDropdownImage" style="display: none;"><nobr>Code: JScript </nobr></label>
					</span> 
				</td>
			</tr>
		</table>
		<div id="devlangsMenu">
			<input id="VisualBasicCheckbox" type="checkbox" data="VisualBasic,vb,'persist'" value="on" onClick="SetLanguage(this)" />
			<label class="checkboxLabel" for="VisualBasicCheckbox">Visual Basic</label><br />
			<input id="CSharpCheckbox" type="checkbox" data="CSharp,cs,'persist'" value="on" onClick="SetLanguage(this)" />
			<label class="checkboxLabel" for="CSharpCheckbox">C#</label><br />
			<input id="ManagedCPlusPlusCheckbox" type="checkbox" data="ManagedCPlusPlus,cpp,'persist'" value="on" onClick="SetLanguage(this)" />
			<label class="checkboxLabel" for="ManagedCPlusPlusCheckbox">Visual C++</label><br />
			<input id="FSharpCheckbox" type="checkbox" data="FSharp,fs,'persist'" value="on" onClick="SetLanguage(this)" />
			<label class="checkboxLabel" for="FSharpCheckbox">F#</label><br />
			<input id="JScriptCheckbox" type="checkbox" data="JScript,cs,'persist'" value="on" onClick="SetLanguage(this)" />
			<label class="checkboxLabel" for="JScriptCheckbox">JScript</label><br />
		</div>
		<table id="bottomTable" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
			<tr id="headerTableRow1">
				<td align="left">
					<span id="runningHeaderText"> </span> 
				</td>
			</tr>
			<tr id="headerTableRow2">
				<td align="left">
					<span id="nsrTitle">Progress Dashboard (GovDev)</span> 
				</td>
			</tr>
			<tr id="headerTableRow3">
				<td align="left">
					<span id="headfeedbackarea" class="feedbackhead">
						<a href="javascript:SubmitFeedback('bjordan@microsoft.com','','','10.0','10.0.10236.10000','%0\dThank%20you%20for%20your%20feedback.%20The%20GovDev%20team%20uses%20your%20feedback%20to%20improve%20documentation.%20While%20we%20are%20reviewing%20your%20feedback,%20we%20may%20send%20you%20e-mail%20to%20ask%20for%20clarification%20or%20feedback%20on%20a%20solution.%20We%20do%20not%20use%20your%20e-mail%20address%20for%20any%20other%20purpose%20and%20we%20delete%20it%20after%20we%20finish%20our%20review.%0\AFor%20further%20information%20about%20the%20privacy%20policies%20of%20Microsoft,%20please%20see%20http://privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/default.aspx.%0\A%0\d','Customer%20Feedback');">
							Send Feedback
						</a>
					</span> 
				</td>
			</tr>
		</table>
		<table id="gradientTable">
			<tr>
				<td class="nsrBottom" background="../icons/gradient.gif" />
			</tr>
		</table>
	</div>
    <div id="mainSection">
        <div id="mainBody">
            <div id="allHistory" class="saveHistory" onsave="saveAll()" onload="loadAll()" />
            <font color="DarkGray"><p /></font>
            <div class="introduction">
                <p>You can use the Progress dashboard to track team progress toward completing an iteration.
                    This dashboard displays four reports that help you monitor progress, burndown, and
                    issues.</p>
                <div class="alert">
                    <table width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
                        <tr>
                            <th align="left">
                                <img class="note" alt="Note" title="Note" src="../icons/alert_note.gif" /><b>Note
                                </b></th>
                        </tr>
                        <tr>
                            <td>
                                <p>You access dashboards through your team project portal. You can access the Progress
                                    dashboard only if that portal has been enabled and is provisioned to use Microsoft
                                    Office SharePoint Server 2007. For more information, see <span sdata="link"><a href="DashboardsGovDev.html">
                                        Dashboards (GovDev)</a></span> or <span sdata="link"><a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/644ee4b7-3653-4943-9809-3d14d4d79c48">
                                            Access a Team Project Portal and Process Guidance</a></span>.</p>
                            </td>
                        </tr>
                    </table>
                </div>
                <div class="caption"></div>
                <div class="tableSection">
                    <table width="50%" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="5" frame="lhs">
                        <tr>
                            <td>
                                <p><span class="label">In this topic</span> </p>
                                <ul>
                                    <li>
                                        <p><a href="#Data">Data That Appears in the Dashboard</a></p>
                                    </li>
                                    <li>
                                        <p><a href="#RequiredActivities">Required Activities for Tracking Progress</a></p>
                                    </li>
                                    <li>
                                        <p><a href="#Using">Tracking an Iteration</a></p>
                                        <ul>
                                            <li>
                                                <p><a href="#Modify">Modify the Task Burndown Report for an Iteration</a></p>
                                            </li>
                                            <li>
                                                <p><a href="#Progress">Monitoring Progress</a></p>
                                            </li>
                                            <li>
                                                <p><a href="#Issues">Monitoring Issues</a></p>
                                            </li>
                                        </ul>
                                    </li>
                                </ul>
                            </td>
                            <td>
                                <p><span class="label">You can use this dashboard to answer the following questions</span> 
                                    :</p>
                                <ul>
                                    <li>
                                        <p>Is the team likely to finish the iteration on time?</p>
                                    </li>
                                    <li>
                                        <p>Will the team complete the planned work based on the current burndown? </p>
                                    </li>
                                    <li>
                                        <p>How much progress has the team made on implementing Use Cases in the past four
                                            weeks? </p>
                                    </li>
                                    <li>
                                        <p>How quickly is the team identifying and closing Issues?</p>
                                    </li>
                                    <li>
                                        <p>What were the most recent check-ins?</p>
                                    </li>
                                </ul>
                            </td>
                        </tr>
                    </table>
                </div>
                <p><span class="label">Required Permissions</span> </p>
                <p>To view the dashboard, you must be assigned or belong to a group that has been assigned
                    the <span class="ui">Read</span> permissions in SharePoint Products for the team
                    project. To modify, copy, or customize a dashboard, you must be assigned or belong
                    to a group that has been assigned the <span class="ui">Members</span> permissions
                    in SharePoint Products for the team project. For more information, see <span sdata="link">
                        <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/3cfefdd2-b161-4e04-8dc0-e2deeac50262">Add
                            Users to Team Projects</a></span>.</p>
                <p>To modify a report in Office Excel, you must be a member of the <span class="ui">
                    TfsWarehouseDataReaders</span> security role in SQL Server Analysis Services. You
                    must also be assigned or belong to a group that has been assigned the <span class="ui">
                        Members</span> permissions in SharePoint Products for the team project. For more
                    information, see <span sdata="link"><a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/c7488754-77af-4fb4-8eca-1af0d206c9c8">
                        Grant Access to the Databases of the Data Warehouse for Visual Studio ALM</a>
                    </span>.</p>
                <p>To view a work item, you must be a member of the <span class="ui">Readers</span> group
                    or your <span class="ui">View work items in this node</span> permission must be set
                    to <span class="ui">Allow</span>. To create or modify a work item, you must be a
                    member of the <span class="ui">Contributors</span> group or your <span class="ui">Edit
                        work items in this node</span> permission must be set to <span class="ui">Allow
                    </span>. For more information, see <span sdata="link"><a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/8f1f5f39-ed0f-4539-bee1-7e7e77bb5728">
                        Managing Permissions</a></span>.</p>
            </div>
            <a name="Data" />
            <h1 class="heading"><span onclick="ExpandCollapse(sectionToggle0)" style="cursor: default;"
                onkeypress="ExpandCollapse_CheckKey(sectionToggle0, event)" tabindex="0">
                <img id="sectionToggle0" class="toggle" name="toggleSwitch" src="../icons/collapse_all.gif" />Data
                Displayed in the Dashboard</span> </h1>
            <div id="sectionSection0" class="section" name="collapseableSection" style="">
                <p>You can use the Progress dashboard to understand how much progress the team is making
                    toward completing Use Cases, tasks, and issues. Specifically, this dashboard
                    displays the Web parts that the following illustration shows and that the following
                    table describes.</p>
                <img alt="Burndown Dashboard" src="../art/ProcGuide_Dashboard_TeamProgress.png" /><div
                    class="alert">
                    <table width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
                        <tr>
                            <th align="left">
                                <img class="note" alt="Note" title="Note" src="../icons/alert_note.gif" /><b>Note
                                </b></th>
                        </tr>
                        <tr>
                            <td>
                                <p>Burndown, progress, and trend charts, reports
                                    <img alt="Step 1" src="../art/ProcGuid_1.gif" />
                                    through
                                    <img alt="Step 4" src="../art/ProcGuid_4.gif" />, do not appear when the server
                                    that hosts Analysis Services for the team project is not available.</p>
                            </td>
                        </tr>
                    </table>
                </div>
                <p>For more information about how to interpret, update, or customize the charts that
                    appear in the Progress dashboard, see the topics that are listed in the following
                    table.</p>
                <div class="caption"></div>
                <div class="tableSection">
                    <table width="50%" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="5" frame="lhs">
                        <tr>
                            <th>
                                <p>Web part</p>
                            </th>
                            <th>
                                <p>Data displayed</p>
                            </th>
                            <th>
                                <p>Related topic</p>
                            </th>
                        </tr>
                        <tr>
                            <td>
                                <img alt="Step 1" src="../art/ProcGuid_1.gif" /></td>
                            <td>
                                <p>A visual representation of the cumulative count of all hours that the team spent
                                    on all tasks for the past four weeks. </p>
                                <img alt="Burndown chart" src="../art/ProcGuid_AgileBurn.png" /><p>The <span class="ui">
                                    Ideal Trend</span> line calculates a slope or trajectory for when work will be completed
                                    based on the amount of work remaining and the end date of the report. The line is
                                    drawn from the remaining work on the start date to intersect the x-axis on the end
                                    date.</p>
                            </td>
                            <td>
                                <p><span sdata="link"><a href="BurndownExcelReport.html">Burndown Excel Report</a></span> 
                                </p>
                            </td>
                        </tr>
                        <tr>
                            <td>
                                <img alt="Step 2" src="../art/ProcGuid_2.gif" /></td>
                            <td>
                                <p>A visual representation of the cumulative count of all active and closed tasks for
                                    the past four weeks.</p>
                                <img alt="Task Progress Excel Report" src="../art/ProcGuid_ExcelTask.png" />
                            </td>
                            <td>
                                <p><span sdata="link"><a href="TaskProgressExcelReport.html">Task Progress Excel Report
                                    </a></span> </p>
                            </td>
                        </tr>
                        <tr>
                            <td>
                                <img alt="Step 3" src="../art/ProcGuid_3.gif" /></td>
                            <td>
                                <p>A visual representation of the cumulative count of all Use Cases, grouped by their
                                    state, for the past four weeks.</p>
                                <img alt="Example Use Cases report" src="../art/ProcGuid_ExcelReport.png" />
                            </td>
                            <td>
                                <p><span sdata="link"><a href="UseCaseProgressExcelReportGovDev.html">Use Case Progress
                                    Excel Report (GovDev)</a></span> </p>
                            </td>
                        </tr>
                        <tr>
                            <td>
                                <img alt="Step 4" src="../art/ProcGuid_4.gif" /></td>
                            <td>
                                <p>Line chart that shows the rolling average of the number of Issues that the team has
                                    opened and closed for the past four weeks. The rolling average is based on the seven
                                    days before the date for which it is calculated.</p>
                                <img alt="7-Day Issue Trend Excel Report" src="../art/ProcGuid_7Day.png" /></td>
                            <td>
                                <p><span sdata="link"><a href="IssueTrendsExcelReport.html">Issue Trends Excel Report
                                    </a></span> </p>
                            </td>
                        </tr>
                        <tr>
                            <td>
                                <img alt="Step 5" src="../art/ProcGuid_6.gif" /></td>
                            <td>
                                <p>Team Web Access list of active issues.</p>
                            </td>
                            <td>
                                <p><span sdata="link"><a href="IssuesWorkbook.html">Issues Workbook</a></span> </p>
                            </td>
                        </tr>
                        <tr>
                            <td>
                                <img alt="Step 6" src="../art/ProcGuid_6a.gif" /></td>
                            <td>
                                <p>List of upcoming events. The list is derived from a SharePoint Web part.</p>
                                <img alt="Import Events Web part" src="../art/SharePoint_Dashboard.png" /></td>
                            <td>
                                <p>Not applicable</p>
                            </td>
                        </tr>
                        <tr>
                            <td>
                                <img alt="Step 7" src="../art/ProcGuid_7.gif" /></td>
                            <td>
                                <p>Count of active, resolved, and closed work items. You can open the list of work items
                                    by clicking each number. This list is derived from a Team Web Access Web part.
                                </p>
                                <img alt="Project Work Items Web part" src="../art/TWSA_DashProjectWI.png" />
                            </td>
                            <td>
                                <p><span sdata="link"><a href="WorkItemsandWorkflowGovDev.html">Work Items and Workflow
                                    (GovDev)</a></span> </p>
                            </td>
                        </tr>
                        <tr>
                            <td>
                                <img alt="Step 8" src="../art/ProcGuid_8.gif" /></td>
                            <td>
                                <p>List of recent builds and their status. You can view more details about a specific
                                    build by clicking it. This list is derived from a Team Web Access Web part.</p>
                                <img alt="Recent Builds Web part" src="../art/TWSA_DashBuilds.png" /></td>
                            <td>
                                <p><span sdata="link"><a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/5c0de804-7ff9-468b-9053-fd068ea1a2bc">
                                    Managing and Viewing Completed Builds</a></span> </p>
                            </td>
                        </tr>
                        <tr>
                            <td>
                                <img alt="9" src="../art/ProcGuid_9.gif" /></td>
                            <td>
                                <p>List of the most recent check-ins. You can view more details about a specific check-in
                                    by clicking it. This list is derived from a Team Web Access Web part.</p>
                                <img alt="Recent Checkins Web part" src="../art/TWSA_DashCheckins.png" /></td>
                            <td>
                                <p><span sdata="link"><a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/dded21d3-4869-4e19-bca4-62e27179539c">
                                    Using the Check In and Pending Changes Windows</a></span> </p>
                            </td>
                        </tr>
                    </table>
                </div>
            </div>
            <a name="RequiredActivities" />
            <h1 class="heading"><span onclick="ExpandCollapse(sectionToggle1)" style="cursor: default;"
                onkeypress="ExpandCollapse_CheckKey(sectionToggle1, event)" tabindex="0">
                <img id="sectionToggle1" class="toggle" name="toggleSwitch" src="../icons/collapse_all.gif" />Required
                Activities for Tracking Progress</span> </h1>
            <div id="sectionSection1" class="section" name="collapseableSection" style="">
                <p>For the reports that appear in the Progress dashboard to be useful and accurate,
                    the team must perform the following activities:</p>
                <ul>
                    <li>
                        <p>Define Use Cases, tasks, and issues. </p>
                    </li>
                    <li>
                        <p>Specify and update the <span class="ui">Completed</span> and <span class="ui">Remaining
                            </span> fields for each Task as the team works on it.</p>
                        <div class="alert">
                            <table width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
                                <tr>
                                    <th align="left">
                                        <img class="note" alt="Important note" title="Important note" src="../icons/alert_caution.gif" /><b>Important
                                        </b></th>
                                </tr>
                                <tr>
                                    <td>
                                        <p>If you subdivide a task into subtasks, specify hours only for the subtasks. These
                                            hours are rolled up as summary values for the parent task and Use Case. </p>
                                    </td>
                                </tr>
                            </table>
                        </div>
                    </li>
                    <li>
                        <p>Update the <span class="ui">State</span> of each task, Use Case, and issue as it
                            progresses from <span class="ui">Active</span> to <span class="ui">Closed</span>.
                        </p>
                    </li>
                    <li>
                        <p>(optional) Specify the <span class="ui">Iteration</span> and <span class="ui">Area
                            </span> paths for each work item if you want to filter by those fields. </p>
                    </li>
                </ul>
            </div>
            <a name="Using" />
            <h1 class="heading"><span onclick="ExpandCollapse(sectionToggle2)" style="cursor: default;"
                onkeypress="ExpandCollapse_CheckKey(sectionToggle2, event)" tabindex="0">
                <img id="sectionToggle2" class="toggle" name="toggleSwitch" src="../icons/collapse_all.gif" />Tracking
                an Iteration</span> </h1>
            <div id="sectionSection2" class="section" name="collapseableSection" style="">
                <p>By using the Progress dashboard, product owners and the team can view the team's
                    progress and determine whether the team is making enough progress, delivering value
                    by closing Use Cases, and implementing the iteration based on the iteration plan.
                </p>
                <p>For more information about how to customize the Progress dashboard and the types
                    of questions to ask based on the indicators that appear within the dashboard, see
                    the following sections:</p>
                <ul>
                    <li>
                        <p><a href="#Modify">Modify the Task Burndown Report for an Iteration</a></p>
                    </li>
                    <li>
                        <p><a href="#Progress">Monitoring Progress</a></p>
                    </li>
                    <li>
                        <p><a href="#Issues">Monitoring Issues</a></p>
                    </li>
                </ul>
                <a name="Modify" />
                <h3 class="subHeading">Modify the Task Burndown Report for an Iteration</h3>
                <div class="subsection">
                    <p>To track an iteration by using the Progress dashboard, you must modify the Task Burndown
                        report in Office Excel to reflect the start date for your iteration. By default,
                        the start date is five days before the current date.</p>
                    <div class="alert">
                        <table width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
                            <tr>
                                <th align="left">
                                    <img class="note" alt="Note" title="Note" src="../icons/alert_note.gif" /><b>Note
                                    </b></th>
                            </tr>
                            <tr>
                                <td>
                                    <p>The progress and trend reports,
                                        <img alt="Step 2" src="../art/ProcGuid_2.gif" />
                                        through
                                        <img alt="Step 4" src="../art/ProcGuid_4.gif" />, display data for the previous
                                        four weeks. You can change the time interval for these reports by modifying the
                                        corresponding report in Office Excel.</p>
                                </td>
                            </tr>
                        </table>
                    </div>
                    <h3 class="procedureSubHeading">To modify the Task Burndown report to correspond to
                        a specific iteration</h3>
                    <div class="subSection">
                        <ol>
                            <li>
                                <p>In the dashboard navigation panel, click <span class="ui">Excel Reports</span>.
                                </p>
                            </li>
                            <li>
                                <p>Check out the Burndown file. </p>
                            </li>
                            <li>
                                <p>On the Reports worksheet, click the
                                    <img alt="Down arrow" src="../art/WIT_DownArrow.gif" />
                                    down arrow in the cell to the right of Work Item.Iteration Hierarchy, expand the
                                    selections, and then select the check box of the iteration that you want to track.
                                </p>
                            </li>
                            <li>
                                <p>(Optional) Click the
                                    <img alt="Down arrow" src="../art/WIT_DownArrow.gif" />
                                    down arrow in the cell to the right of Work Item.Area Hierarchy, expand the selections,
                                    and then select the check box of the product area that you want to track. </p>
                            </li>
                            <li>
                                <p>In the cell under <span class="ui">Date</span>, specify the start date of the time
                                    interval in either mm/dd or mm/dd/yyyy format.</p>
                            </li>
                            <li>
                                <p>Click the cell that contains the start date that you just specified, and then drag
                                    the fill handle<img alt="A small square in the cell's lower-right corner." src="../art/Icon_FillHandle.gif" />
                                    across the cells that you want to fill.</p>
                            </li>
                            <li>
                                <p>(Optional) Use the <span class="ui">Auto Fill Options</span> button
                                    <img alt="Auto Fill Options button image" src="../art/Icon_AutoFillOptions.gif" />
                                    to specify how to fill the selection.</p>
                                <p>For example, you can specify <span class="ui">Fill Series</span> or <span class="ui">
                                    Fill Weekdays</span>. For more information, see the following page on the Microsoft
                                    Web site: <a href="http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=165808">Fill data in worksheet
                                        cells</a>.</p>
                            </li>
                            <li>
                                <p>Click the <span class="ui">Data</span> tab.</p>
                            </li>
                            <li>
                                <p>In the <span class="ui">Connections</span> group, click <span class="ui">Refresh All
                                    </span>, and verify that the report is refreshed.</p>
                            </li>
                            <li>
                                <p>Save and close the report. </p>
                            </li>
                            <li>
                                <p>Check in the report to the SharePoint site.</p>
                            </li>
                            <li>
                                <p>Return to the Progress dashboard, and refresh your browser window to display the
                                    most recent reports.</p>
                            </li>
                        </ol>
                    </div>
                </div>
                <a name="Progress" />
                <h3 class="subHeading">Monitoring Progress</h3>
                <div class="subsection">
                    <p>To monitor team progress, you can review the <span class="ui">Task Burndown (hours)
                        </span>, <span class="ui">Task Progress (count)</span>, and <span class="ui">Use Case
                            Progress (count)</span> reports for the following types of indicators:</p>
                    <ul>
                        <li>
                            <p><span class="label">Has Completed Work stopped increasing in the Task Burndown (hours)
                                report? </span> </p>
                            <p>One or more issues might be blocking progress or the team might not be resolving
                                and closing work items that it has completed, fixed, and verified.</p>
                        </li>
                        <li>
                            <p><span class="label">Has the number of active Tasks or active or resolved Use Cases
                                stopped increasing? </span> </p>
                            <p>This situation warrants additional investigation. When the team appears to make no
                                progress over several days in either the <span class="ui">Task Progress (count)</span> 
                                or <span class="ui">Use Case Progress (count)</span> reports, the team might be
                                blocked or the team might not be resolving and closing work items that it has completed,
                                fixed, and verified. You should investigate the cause because it could hinder the
                                team's ability to meet the iteration plan and project schedule. </p>
                        </li>
                        <li>
                            <p><span class="label">Is the team adding or expanding the scope of work during the
                                iteration? </span> </p>
                            <p>Significant increases over time to the amount of Remaining Work or to the number
                                of active tasks or Use Cases may indicate poor estimations or scope creep. That
                                is, either the team did not accurately estimate the work at the start of the iteration
                                or the team added features after the iteration started. When required effort is
                                larger than estimated effort, team members might be underestimating the difficulty,
                                time, or other factors. You should investigate the root causes. For example, you
                                might want to determine how granular the tasks are.</p>
                        </li>
                        <li>
                            <p><span class="label">Do changes in the reports match your expectations?</span> 
                            </p>
                            <p>Dashboard reports reflect work that the team is tracking. You should expect the reports
                                to change according to the decisions and changes that the team makes about the work.
                                If the team reallocates work to another iteration or decides to add work for an
                                iteration, reports on the Progress dashboard should reflect those decisions.
                            </p>
                        </li>
                    </ul>
                    <p>If the slope of the <span class="ui">Remaining Work</span> is progressing near or
                        under the <span class="ui">Ideal Trend</span> line, the team is executing well against
                        the iteration plan. However, if the <span class="ui">Remaining Work</span> slope
                        is higher than the <span class="ui">Ideal Trend</span> line, the team will probably
                        not complete all planned tasks before the end of the iteration.</p>
                </div>
                <a name="Issues" />
                <h3 class="subHeading">Monitoring Issues</h3>
                <div class="subsection">
                    <p>Because issues can block or impede team progress, you should track them as the team
                        identifies them, and you should monitor how quickly the team addresses them. You
                        can use the <span class="ui">7-Day Issue Trend Rate</span> and the Open Issues report
                        to review any issues that have an impact on the team. Specifically, you can find
                        answers to the following questions:</p>
                    <ul>
                        <li>
                            <p>How often is the team identifying issues?</p>
                        </li>
                        <li>
                            <p>Is the team resolving issues as quickly as it is identifying them?</p>
                        </li>
                    </ul>
                    <p>If the team identifies more issues than it can address, the Issue Trends report will
                        show that the team is closing issues at a lower rate. The team might need to reexamine
                        priorities to determine whether the issues are actually problems that it should
                        address or if it can ignore them. </p>
                </div>
            </div>
            <h1 class="heading"><span onclick="ExpandCollapse(seeAlsoToggle)" style="cursor: default;"
                onkeypress="ExpandCollapse_CheckKey(seeAlsoToggle, event)" tabindex="0">
                <img id="seeAlsoToggle" class="toggle" name="toggleSwitch" src="../icons/collapse_all.gif" />See
                Also</span> </h1>
            <div id="seeAlsoSection" class="section" name="collapseableSection" style="">
                <h4 class="subHeading">Concepts</h4>
                <div class="seeAlsoStyle"><span sdata="link"><a href="UseCaseGovDev.html">Use Case
                    (GovDev)</a></span> </div>
                <div class="seeAlsoStyle"><span sdata="link"><a href="IssueGovDev.html">Issue (GovDev)
                    </a></span> </div>
                <div class="seeAlsoStyle"><span sdata="link"><a href="TaskGovDev.html">Task (GovDev)
                    </a></span> </div>
                <div class="seeAlsoStyle"><span sdata="link"><a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/6b0d2df4-c638-4637-af93-86db64ca73ab">
                    Create and Modify Areas and Iterations</a></span> </div>
                <div class="seeAlsoStyle"><span sdata="link"><a href="DashboardsGovDev.html">Dashboards
                    (GovDev)</a></span> </div>
                <div class="seeAlsoStyle"><span sdata="link"><a href="ArtifactsGovDev.html">Artifacts
                    (GovDev)</a></span> </div>
            </div>
        </div>
        <div id="footer">
            <div class="footerLine">
                <img width="100%" height="3px" src="../icons/footer.gif" alt="Footer image" title="Footer image" />
            </div>
            <span id="feedbackarea">Send <a href="javascript:SubmitFeedback('bjordan@microsoft.com','','','10.0','10.0.10236.10000','%0\dThank%20you%20for%20your%20feedback.%20The%20GovDev%20team%20uses%20your%20feedback%20to%20improve%20documentation.%20While%20we%20are%20reviewing%20your%20feedback,%20we%20may%20send%20you%20e-mail%20to%20ask%20for%20clarification%20or%20feedback%20on%20a%20solution.%20We%20do%20not%20use%20your%20e-mail%20address%20for%20any%20other%20purpose%20and%20we%20delete%20it%20after%20we%20finish%20our%20review.%0\AFor%20further%20information%20about%20the%20privacy%20policies%20of%20Microsoft,%20please%20see%20http://privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/default.aspx.%0\A%0\d','Customer%20Feedback');">
                feedback </a>on this topic or submit an issue at the GovDev for TFS Codeplex Site.</span> 
        </div>
    </div>
</body>
</html>
